View from the public footpath to the west of Manor Farm. 

"The remains of the medieval settlement of Apley, including those of a monastic manor or grange and associated ridge and furrow cultivation, survive well as a series of substantial earthworks and associated buried deposits"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1016981 

DB 30 March 2021

Photograph of a column at Bardney Abbey, during excavations undertaken by the Reverend Laing between 1909 and 1914.

Courtesy of Lincolnshire County Council, The Collection

Photograph of a group of excavators at Bardney Abbey, during excavations undertaken by the Reverend Laing between 1909 and 1914.  Reverend Laing himself sits at the centre.

Photograph of the inner side of the west front at Bardney Abbey, during excavations undertaken by the Reverend Laing between 1909 and 1914.

Snow emphasises the pattern of ridge and furrow near the site of Beesby deserted medieval village (2 miles south-west of North Thoresby, at TF 267 967).

Frank Robinson, March 2013

The Hussey Tower, close to the centre of Boston (TF 331436), is one of the earliest brick buildings in Lincolnshire (c1460).

It was built by Richard Benyngton JP as part of a larger domestic complex.

Among the surviving architectural features of interest are a brick vaulted ceiling and an octagonal stair turret.

It is in the care of the Heritage Trust for Lincolnshire on behalf of the owners, Boston Borough Council.

View to the south of the modern road. 

"From the early 12th century the manor was tenanted and then held by the family of Buselinus ... The settlement and manor site are believed to have been remodelled during this period.

At the end of the 14th century the Buslingthorpe family ceased, and during the 15th and 16th centuries the manor was held by the Tyrwhitts, who gradually turned the land over to sheep-rearing and moved elsewhere.

By the beginning of the 17th century the village was largely depopulated and the church ruinous ...

The remains of the medieval village take the form of a series of substantial earthworks extending to both sides of the modern road. 

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1018686 

DB 12 May 2018

Local signage states that :-

"Buslingthorpe has a moated site in the centre of the medieval village and was the site of the manor house. It would have been the most impressive residence in the village. In keeping with the high status of its occupants the house and its associated structures would have been situated on a raised island surrounded by its wide moat, most of which is still water-filled today.

Some moated sites like this one, had smaller moated enclosures for gardens or yards.

In Buslingthorpe the outline of the rectangular moated area survives in the medieval village streets to the north, south and west".

DB 2020 

The chalk remains of the church of St Andrew, Calceby, (TF389757) stand among the lumps and bumps of the deserted medieval village.

It is one of eight medieval villages on the eastern side of the Wolds marked on the OS Explorer maps.

Frank Robinson, 2009

"The main area of medieval settlement remains is located east of the moated complex on the north side of the present road to Grange Farm.

They take the form of a series of substantial earthworks and associated buried remains, including a linear hollow way about 0.7m in depth and aligned approximately east-west, which represents the original road through the village"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1016979 

DB 27 March 2021 

Site of Great Humby Hall in a field immediately to the north of the chapel.

"Next to the chapel stood Great Humby Hall. Built in the 13th century it became a larger hall by the 17th, the probable date it was pulled down"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Humby 

A notice displayed on the chapel noticeboard in part reads :-

"Sir William Brownlow resided at the Hall, now destroyed, and died there, 14 December 1666. In his time there was a rebuilding of the Chapel, and externally it was made as we see it today. 

The next owner, Sir Richard, survived his father only two years. His widow, to whom there is a fine monument at Somerby, presented to Humby Chapel, in 1683, a handsome set of plate for use in the Holy Communion"

DB 22 March 2019 

The most spectacular feature of Great Ponton's Ellys Manor is the early 16th century wall paintings which are widely regarded as the finest domestic wall paintings in Britain.

They feature trees and other lush plant life shading deer and peacocks in a French tapestry style.

Double moated enclosure, lying southeast of the dovecote, and near the River Witham. Site of a medieval manor or grange (monastic farm).

DB 7 February 2018

View across the double moated enclosure with the fifteenth century dovecote in the background. 

DB 7 February 2018

The present Hall stands within a medieval moat. 

DB 18 March 2012

These steep slopes near Langton are extensively terraced and have served as sheep walks in modern times.

These features are said to be strip lynchets of medieval origin - though popular legend claims they were "Roman vineyards"!

Frank Robinson, February 2013

North East chapel of the North East transept.

This chapel was originally much smaller but was extended - foundations for the large rectangular extension can be seen in the grass.

Probably Saint Hugh's original burial place. 

James Essex rebuilt the chapel in 1772 on the old foundations i.e. to the late 1190s length.

The reduced chapel is currently in use as the Vergers' Vestry. 

DB 14 November 2018

The oldest of the gates which were built along with walls to fortify the Cathedral precincts, Exchequer Gate dates from the fourteenth century.

Inside the arches there is vaulting with diagonal and ridge-ribs.

SLHA occupied the northern section of this building, (as an office) for a period of time during the 1980s.

Undated postcard

Ongoing archaeological investigations at this site on the corner of Grantham Street and Flaxengate.

Subsequently reported by CityX 12 September 2108 that a medieval coffin had been unearthed :-

"Archaeologists working on the site uncovered the sarcophagus under thick layers of rubble ...

Following the archeological dig by Network Archaeology, Jackson and Jackson Developments will build a six-storey complex which includes student accommodation and a ground-floor NCP car park". 

https://cityx.co.uk/2018/09/coffin-dug-up-at-former-lincoln-car-park/ 

DB 23 August 2018

This glazed roof tile once adorned the roof of a Medieval building in Lincoln.  Such ridge decoration was once commonplace, and often featured mythical creatures and caricatures.

This tile has a human face on both sides and it has been suggested from the depiction that the face may represent that of a Jew.

Lincoln's Medieval Jewish community was large, and although some of its members ranked among the wealthiest in the land, though not all of Lincoln's Jews were so well off.

Sadly, Lincoln had its part to play in the persecution of the Jews which led to their expulsion from Britain in 1290.

This impressive medieval archway was extensively restored in 1884.

It is the south-east gateway to the Cathedral Close, though now passed on either side by the modern road.

It is constructed of local dressed stone and ashlar with rubble core and a lead roof.

Undated postcard

The Tithe Barn dating from c1440 stands to the south of Vicars Court in Lincoln, below the cathedral.

It initially served as a warehouse but was probably put to use at some time as an infirmary or refectory.

2005

Low mounds, scattered over several square miles in this part of the Marsh, are the ploughed over spoil heaps of an earlier salt industry (by the evaporation of sea water).

Individual "salterns", like this one, can be identified with those shown on a Marshchapel parish map of 1595.

Frank Robinson, November 2013

View up towards Abbey Hill from the banks of the Roman Car Dyke Canal, Nocton Fen Lane.

Nocton Park Priory is situated beyond the crest of the hill (around Grid Reference TF077647).

"The monument includes the buried and earthwork remains of the inner precinct of Nocton Park Priory, together with those of the house which succeeded it, a house of Augustinian canons founded in the earlier 12th century.

The priory, dedicated to St Mary Magdalene, was established by the lord of the manor, Robert Darcy, in or near a pre-existing deer park.

Originally a small foundation for nine canons, it declined in population during the 15th and 16th centuries, and, when it was dissolved in 1536, only four canons and a prior were resident"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1018898  

DB 2020 

The earthworks of the medieval village extend for 500m on the south side of a shallow valley, between the present village to the east and the site of a medieval priory to the west.

Seen here are some of the rectangular enclosures between the stream and a hollow way.

Frank Robinson, December 2014

Earthworks and trackways near the site of the medieval priory of North Ormsby.

Frank Robinson, December 2014

"North Rauceby is a shrunken village, being associated with a partial lost settlement"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Rauceby 

"Medieval or Post Medieval settlement, consisting of hollow ways, crofts, buildings, fields, and ridge and furrow seen as earthworks. Pottery and other finds have been recorded"

https://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=348926 

View from Chapel Lane. 

DB 2020

Part of the site of Orford Priory which straddles the boundary between Binbrook and Stainton Le Vale.

"The remains of the Premonstratensian nunnery of Orford survive as a substantial group of earthworks"

"The Premonstratensian canonesses at Orford first appear in documents of the period 1155-1160.

The nunnery church and land were traditionally granted to Newsham Abbey by Ralph de Aubigny in the time of Henry II (1154-1189).

At its dissolution in 1539 the nunnery was granted to Robert Tyrwhitt who, in common with his successors, let the site"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1007809 

DB 10 October 2018

The two-arched packhorse bridge at Scredington (TF 097409), constructed in c1250, now carries a footpath over a village stream.

Close by are the remains of a moat and the extensive site of a medieval manor.

Stewart Squires, 2004

"This piece of worked stone is a portion of a 14th century cross discovered in 1887 under the foundations of the tower.

The coat of arms also appeared on a 17th century house which once stood in the churchyard" 

DB 1 September 2019

This glazed ceramic whistle is in the form of a jester's head and was discovered at Tattershall in 1980 and dates to the 16th Century.

Such representations are rare and the whistle may have formed part of a jester's equipment.

Although not found at Tattershall Castle, the whistle may have some connection to festivities held there.

"REMOVED FROM THE SITE OF CATELY ABBEY IN THIS PARISH 1912"

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"About half a mile south-west of the hamlet is the site of Catley Abbey, founded in the time of Stephen, for monks and nuns of the Gilbertine order, by Peter de Belingley, and dedicated to St. Mary; the revenues at the Dissolution were valued at £33; no remains of the buildings, which covered about 5 acres of ground, are now extant, but fragments of stone, exquisitely carved, as well as an ancient key, have been discovered on the spot, and are preserved by the family of the late Mr. E.G. Allen, of Highfield, Metheringham"

DB 10 July 2019

This packhorse bridge is about 20 metres long and crosses the River Rase in West Rasen, about 3 miles west of Market Rasen (TF 063893).

It is said to have been built in the early 1300s by the then Bishop of Lincoln, who also built a bridge over the Ancholme, two miles away at the place now known as Bishopbridge.

Pevsner, however, dates the bridge to the 15th century.

F Robinson, 2010

Looking across part of the moated site with St Andrew's Church in the background. 

"The remains lie at the bottom of a gentle slope and take the form of a series of earthworks, including a moated platform, a pair of ponds and other water-control features, and a group of ditched enclosures. The site is thought to have formed part of the manor of Waldin the Engineer which was granted to the Benedictine abbey of St Nicholas in Angers, France, in the early 12th century. At the end of the 14th century, during the Hundred Years War, the property was confiscated by the king and in 1441 was granted to King's College, Cambridge"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1011456?section=official-list-entry 

DB 8 March 2022

View from the public footpath, across the site of a medieval preceptory and settlement remains, looking towards Temple Garth Farm.

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1007689?section=official-list-entry 

DB 8 March 2022 

View from public footpath at the southwest corner of the Complex. 

"The monument includes the remains of a medieval manorial complex with associated church and churchyard located 230m south east of the present All Saints' Church.

In 1086 there were two manors at Wragby in the possession of Erenis of Buron and Waldin the Artificer.

The surviving remains are thought to represent the manor held by Erenis of Buron which included responsibility for a church and a priest and was the centre of a substantial estate"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1016967 

DB 2020

Perhaps a fragment remaining from the Old Church.

DB 9 June 2020